The New Destinations Summit will bring together innovators and visionaries to share, discuss and debate how technology can create new tourist destinations and generate inclusive and sustainable economic growth through travel and local experiences. Airbnb and the city of Igualada are organizing this event as part of their commitment with healthy tourism.

The event has the following objectives:

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1. Gather representatives form regions or governments that see tourism as an opportunity.

2. Identify good practices or examples of towns, cities or regions that are not traditional tourist destinations and have used healthy tourism to improve their communities and generate economic growth.3. Position technology as a key tool in the promotion and management of these destinations, empowering local communities.4.Support a vision of constructive tourism, centered on the community and complementary to destinations: counteracting the mantra that tourism only generates negative externalities.5.Create tourism programs and initiatives that benefit the community and spread income throughout its communities.

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The Summit

The New Destinations Summit will bring together innovators and visionaries to share, discuss and debate how technology can create new tourist destinations and generate inclusive and sustainable economic growth through travel and local experiences. Airbnb and the city of Igualada are organizing this event as part of their commitment with healthy tourism.

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About Igualada

Igualada is a municipality of the province of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It is located 45 minutes away from Barcelona on the left bank of the Anoia river, and at the western end of the Igualada-Martorell-Barcelona railway. Igualada is the capital and central market of the Anoia region, a rich agricultural and wine-production district in Catalonia. Igualada is 40 miles west from Barcelona and 12 mile west from the famous mountain and monastery of Montserrat.

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About Airbnb

At Airbnb, we believe that technology-enabled, people-to-people home sharing promotes healthy tourism—tourism that benefits the hosts who share their homes, the guests who are seeking authentic experiences, and the local residents whose cultures, customs and economies are respected, observed and supported.

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The Venue: Igualada Leather Museum

The Igualada Leather Museum and County Museum of Anoia is housed in two buildings of great symbolic value for Igualada’s industrial history, mainly based on the manufacture of wool and leather.

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By signing up for the Event, you agree that Airbnb may record or photograph the Event, (including You, your likeness and voice), and use it publicly or privately in any form of media, including for commercial purposes. By attending, You consent to the recording and photographing and grant Airbnb an unrestricted, perpetual, non-exclusive and sublicenseable license, to take, use, display, perform, distribute or exploit for any lawful and commercial purpose any recordings or photographs. If You do not agree, please do not click "Submit" and do not attend the meetup.